Volume 3: The Nameless Chapter 10 The great journey of the freeloader king begins now!
"That guy didn't lie to you. The internal system of this Fenrir super-powered armor is indeed bound to DNA and has been completely locked."
After an hour of hard work, Miss Judy, a technology engineer from Night City, opened the door tiredly, wiped the oil stains off her face, and said to Mason who came to invite her to the trading party that started in the castle with a tired face:
"It's a physical lock on the hardware. I can't unlock it. And this suit uses some very strange alien technology. There's no way to restart it through normal means."
"It doesn't matter."
Mason nodded.
Although a bit disappointing, this result is reasonable.
If something made by the master himself was so easy to crack, Batman's legendary story would have ended long ago, not to mention that this thing was a countermeasure he set up against all members of the Justice League.
Its technical barriers will only be higher and more secretive.
He looked up and down at Judy, who obviously hadn't rested, and said:
"Go wash up, my team members are waiting for you as a guide."
"Don't be impatient."
Judy snorted and said while wiping the grease off her face:
"I can't solve it, but I didn't say I can't help you. Give me two more days. When you leave Star Castle, I will give you a super-powered armor that you can drive."
"Um?"
Mason raised his eyebrows in surprise, not understanding what Judy meant for a moment. The tech engineer grinned and turned sideways to let Mason see a bunch of strange things that had been dismantled on the workbench behind her.
As Mason stared in astonishment, the Night City engineer gave Mason a thumbs up and said:
"I can't unlock it, but I can replace it completely! I have applied to the captain for a set of the most advanced power armor control modules left by the Kangtao Company Laboratory to replace this bat control system that was programmed in a strange way.
Of course, this is basically a technological upgrade, so the weapon system and power system inside your armor must also be modified accordingly, which I am not familiar with.
But I can give you a suggestion for renovation.”
Judy looked Mason up and down in surprise and said:
"You are also an engineer who can wield a Quasar pistol. I think this won't be a problem for you if you spend some time on it. But the most troublesome thing now is that your super-powered armor needs to be redesigned and the energy system replaced.
To put it simply, because I changed the design, the internal wiring had to be re-routed.
The cunning guy who designed this thing locked the control system and the power system together. I can help you replace its "mechanical brain", but you have to find it a powerful enough "mechanical heart".
Maybe you can get what you want at the trade fair later."
Judy, a girl whose real age was unknown but who looked like a young person, grinned, yawned again, and prepared to wash up and prepare for the trade fair.
Mason handed her a bottle of energy drink and motioned for her to drink it.
The tech girl looked at the oddly colored gadget in her hand in confusion, as if she recalled some bad memories.
She said to Mason with a vigilant look:
"Is there something weird added to this thing? I'm warning you, I don't like men getting close to me! And you're too young, Mason.
Although you speak and act in an old-fashioned way, you look like you are only 18 years old, right? "
"Do all you Night City people talk so much?"
Mason scolded and went forward to check the internal structure of the Fenrir armor that Judy had disassembled using an ultra-precision machine tool. Behind him, the tech girl Judy hesitated for a moment and then drank the potion in her hand.
A few seconds later, she looked at her body in astonishment, which was full of energy again, as if all the fatigue from working late at night in the past few days was swept away.
It is almost more effective than the electric shock plug-ins and whip prostheses used for company dogs.
"Go change your clothes."
Mason said without turning his head:
"Barbara and another lady are waiting for you. She's going to introduce you to her big sister. If I were you I would dress up."
"Your potion is much more powerful than others."
Judy exclaimed:
"How did you do it? You're a rookie who just entered the industry, but your medicine is more powerful than those C-level veterans who boast that they are alchemy masters."
"I am actually what you call a C-level veteran, and I think I may be quite talented in this area."
Mason urged a few more times.
Judy curled her lips and went to the bathroom. She came out in a few minutes, having put on a black leather jacket decorated with gold chains over her vest and changed into a pair of high boots, and that was it.
She held the mirror and applied lip gloss to herself, then followed Mason out of the room and said with a pout:
"Is being a mere C-rank personnel something to be proud of? I am a logistics personnel in the Afterlife Squad who never goes to the battlefield, but I was a C-rank more than a year ago.
The captains have begun the process of being promoted to the A-level Twelve-member Council.
Don't underestimate us, Mason.
Although the Afterlife Squad is an elite team with a small number of members and no fixed vassal world, we are very famous pioneers in the Star Society. "
"I'm more curious about who your captain is?"
Mason walked ahead, adjusting his hat and saying:
"The famous V? Or 'Blackhand' Morgan? It can't be Johnny Silverhand, right? That guy died a long time ago. By the way, has V's cyberpsychosis symptoms improved?"
"You know so much about us, and we know nothing about you."
Judy chewed gum, put her hands in her leather jacket pockets, and whispered:
“This way of making friends makes people feel very insecure.”
"We have a common enemy, and that is enough to guarantee friendship."
Mason smiled.
As I turned the corner ahead, I saw the members of Team K waiting there.
In addition to Barbara and Ertong whom Judy had met, there was also Zha Kang who was smoking by the window while holding the magic book, and Lady Selina who was wearing a tights.
Especially Catwoman.
When Judy saw this mature lady who possessed both elegance and wildness, her eyes suddenly turned into shining stars.
Compared with this walking "hormone poison", the sunny and lovely Barbara has become a little girl.
“That sister!”
Judy pulled Mason's sleeve and whispered:
"Please introduce me to him!"
"Hey, stop drooling."
Mason whispered to his new friend:
"She has a husband and a child, even if it's just an adopted child."
"Wouldn't that be better... ahem, I mean, what does it matter?"
Judy shook her cool long hair seriously and said seriously:
"I have already spent my free and unfettered youth in Night City. Now I just want to get some spiritual warmth. Don't worry.
I won't ruin their lives.
I promise!"
"No, I'm not worried about Selina, I'm worried about you."
Mason also emphasized:
"Don't go near that dangerous cat. You can't outsmart her."
Although the captain of Team K gave enough warnings, in the next ten minutes, Judy still fell into the clutches of the smiling catwoman like a little mouse that came to the door on its own initiative.
When the group arrived at the trade fair on the second floor of the castle, little Judy, who was completely bewitched by Catwoman's charm, had already spilled the beans, saying everything she should and shouldn't say.
At this moment, he was crying in Selina's warm embrace, telling her miserable past that his world was over and he had nowhere to go.
The kindhearted Barbara was there to help and comfort her, and the feeling of being hugged and comforted by two charming girls in tights made the abnormal tech girl XP feel like she was in heaven.
This scene made the three men beside him look at each other in bewilderment.
Zha Kang held a cigarette in his mouth but didn't light it .
He watched as Judy, under Selena's soft words, even began to tell the story of her first love with her Japanese girlfriend who betrayed her.
This made the black magician shudder and he complained to Mason in a low voice:
"You must have given Selina something terrible to drink. This woman is simply a 'witch'! How can she get the information out of me so easily?"
Mason exchanged a cryptic look with Selina.
Lady Cat made a gesture of "leave everything to me", and then the young man pulled Zha Kang and Er Tong towards the hall which was already crowded with people.
He said quietly:
"I just gave Judy a drink of vigour, with perhaps a few drops of Veritaserum 'accidentally' in it, that's all. Tell me about your afternoon, John.
About the 'Amaterasu' team."
"We found information about them from the Mercenary Guild at Star Castle when we registered there."
Zha Kang looked around with a sly look at every area of the luxurious hall in front of him, which had obviously been expanded in size, and his eyes flickered to the female pioneers who were dressed in different styles.
While reporting to Mason in a low voice:
“Their captain is a C-rank personnel like you, but he has carried out seven bounty missions in the past six months. He is very motivated but also suffered a lot of damage, so he has been recruiting members.
It is said that this is because they are striving to become the direct spellcasting team of the logistics master, the Warlock.
I treated a lone ranger who was said to have a grudge against the Amaterasu team to a few drinks. She told me that those guys were allies with two other C-level teams with some backgrounds, and they were all a group of spellcasters who worked together.
This kind of thing seems to be very common in the Star Club."
"No useful information, John."
Mason sighed and said:
"Has your lethality against lonely women decreased?"
"Well, that's hard to say."
Zha Kang shrugged and said:
"The details will depend on whether I can 'convince' that charming lone ranger lady tonight to tell us more. Well, I have to leave in twenty minutes."
"This is for you."
When Mason heard this, he took out a small bottle of medicine from his bag and stuffed it into Zha Kang's hand, and said:
"Drink it five minutes before you do anything . Just one sip will do. Don't drink too much. It would be best if you could find out their team configuration, their specific location in the castle, their station number, etc.
The more detailed the better. ”
"What on earth are you going to do?"
Zha Kang felt that his masculinity might not require such aphrodisiac items, but after thinking about it, he put it away and asked with narrowed eyes.
He felt that Mason, whose mind occasionally wandered, might be about to do something dangerous.
Mason didn't answer.
He said goodbye to Zha Kang and Er Tong, letting them move freely, while he was attracted by something placed on a platform not far away. It was a tall figure wearing medieval armor standing alone behind the counter, flipping through a small book.
It seems that he is the owner of this booth.
The style of his armor looked very familiar to Mason.
Mason guessed that there should be nothing underneath the armor, and he wondered if this guy had a short alchemist brother with cool hair.
"How much does this sell for?"
The young man looked at the fist-sized disc-shaped engineering object in the display case in front of him and said to the shop owner:
"Can I touch it?"
"certainly."
A clear voice rang out from the armor, like the voice of a young man, saying with a welcoming tone of reminder:
"But this is very valuable. If you break it, you have to pay for it."
"I'm an alchemist too. I understand."
Mason smiled and reached out to grasp the object in front of him.
When the armored man heard him call himself an alchemist, he immediately snorted suspiciously, but Mason didn't explain much. He looked at the very familiar A-type logo on it.
After a few seconds, the information tab pops up:
Stark Industries Micro Ark Reactor Rescue Machine
Quality: Legendary Engineering Creation, Supreme Craftsmanship
Item Effect:
After being turned on, it can provide huge energy for the Mark series armor rescue-specific body. If the atomic energy batteries refined from unknown elements are replenished on time, it can be regarded as an "inexhaustible" power source.
Perfectly compatible with all currently known mechanical items.
The reactor is safe, reliable and does not produce any pollution, and the outer safety frame can withstand huge impacts at close range.
Producer: Tony Stark
Item Description: Aren't you looking for the "Mechanical Heart"? What are you still hesitating about? Quickly empty your pocket and spend a fortune to buy it.
Tip: Insufficient engineering skills to analyze the blueprint of this item.
"Freeloading failed!"
A depressing thought popped into Mason's mind.
He shook his head regretfully and returned the reactor in his hand to the knight shop owner without even asking the price. There was no need to ask, as he definitely couldn't afford it.
Unless he was willing to trade the Philosopher's Stone fragment or Unicorn Blood, but that was obviously impossible.
"Is this thing vibranium?"
Mason pointed to another thing in the display case that was emitting a light blue light and asked. The Knight Shopkeeper did not mind and explained like a robot :
"90% pure vibranium ore requires special instruments to shape it, and once it is formed it cannot be modified. Our store is currently having a promotion, where you can get 5 grams of uru gold for free when you buy 100 grams of vibranium. Would you like to consider it?"
"I don't really understand the prices of traded items."
Mason took out a bottle of cursed unicorn blood from his bag and handed it over, saying:
“How do I exchange the two?”
"Well, this looks like a very high-grade alchemical material. Please wait a moment."
The strange figure in armor took the crystal bottle from Mason.
Under the young man's strange gaze, he took out a Nokia phone and dialed a number. Soon, a young man with long blond hair and a red cloak ran over drunkenly.
He glanced at Mason, then pulled out something like a microscope and looked like an expert making an appraisal.
After a few minutes, the guy shook his head and said to Mason:
"If it was pure unicorn blood, it would definitely be worth a fortune, but yours was taken out violently and is contaminated, so the price is not that high.
It takes ten bottles of this blood to exchange for one hundred grams of vibranium."
"Okay, deal."
Mason doesn't bargain.
With a heroic wave of his hand, he displayed nine bottles of unicorn blood, and in exchange for vibranium ore fixed in a special container and a fingernail-sized uru gold ingot from the shop owner.
Of course, Mason's generosity came at a price. He put away the items for the transaction and asked in a low voice:
"Can you tell me where these things came from?"
"A monster named Hulk returned from outer space and brought people to mess up the base world where my two brothers were staying. There was almost a river of blood there. The superheroes were fighting and we took the opportunity to sneak into Wakanda.
That’s the whole story.”
The guy who was doing the appraisal was lying on the counter drunkenly and said in a bored tone:
"But this is the last profit we can make. The world is in chaos and there is no hope for salvation. By the way, my brother said you call yourself an alchemist?
Anyone who has something like unicorn blood in his hand is obviously an important person.
I have another good thing here.”
The young man, who looked rather lazy and Buddhist, took out half a tube of blue serum from his pocket and threw it to Mason, saying:
"I picked this up on the battlefield. You can decide how much it costs. Alas, the damn 'impact' is coming again. If I'm unlucky, I'll have to start all over again.
We all have to prepare for this a little bit more, right, man? "
"Yes, that's true."
Mason didn't even know what "impact" was, but he still responded casually while checking the damaged serum in his hand. He felt that this thing was very familiar, and when the label popped up, it was just as he expected:
Super Soldier Serum【Remake】
Quality: Epic Alchemical Item, Ultimate Craftsmanship
Item Effect: After the special injection procedure is completed, the physical fitness of the injector will be greatly enhanced, allowing it to break the physiological limits of humanoid creatures.
The disadvantage is that it will maximize the user's inner desires.
In simple terms, the good gets better and the bad gets worse.
Producer: Howard Stark
Item Description: The effect of the remake is only slightly different from the original.
Tip: The blueprint is being analyzed. The talent [Photographic Memory] is activated, and the analysis speed is greatly improved.
"Successful freeloading!"
Mason was overjoyed.
He was still worried that the Green Goblin serum he got from Mr. Sandstorm had serious side effects, but then the most authentic superhuman serum was delivered to his door.
While the young man wasted time chatting with the drunken shop owner about meaningless topics while waiting for the analysis to be completed, he looked around the luxurious trade fair in front of him.
In Mason's eyes, these goodies displayed on various booths turned into piles of floating drawings waiting for him to take.
Spend money to buy it?
Pooh!
Men don't come here to spend money!
If I spend a penny after shopping today, I lose!
This freeloader is definitely going to be the boss!
